I had a spare hour in Cambridge this weekend so I dared the crowds in the revamped UMZC’s upper floor. In my prior visit and post I’d experienced and described the lower floor, which is almost exclusively mammals. This “new” floor has everything else that is zoological (animal/Metaz...
It isa parasiteand sucks tissue and fluids out of the fish it is attached to. ... The hagfish is also know as the slime fish. It is eel-like and pinkish in color. It has glands along its sides that produce a thick, sticky slime that it uses as a defense mechanism. ...
Hagfish head: as a fellow cyclostome/agnathan, much like a lamprey but never forget the slime glands! Shark head. Big fat jaws; all the better to bite prey with! Lungfish (Protopterus) head showing the big crushing tooth plates (above). Sturgeon vertebrae: tweak some agnathan/shark bits...